Kyrie Artis, 6, gets acquainted with a dog, along with soldiers from Fort Lee Military Base, during a K9 Walk at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond on March 11. The annual K9 event commemorates K-9 Veterans Day in Virginia and across the U.S. The special day recognizes and honors contributions of military and services dogs in battle and to civilian communities.

“McLean,” an installation by Navine G. Dossos, is featured on the façade of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. The installation is part of the exhibit “So it appears” opening on Feb. 24 at the ICA, 601 W Broad St. The vinyl pieces used in the work are adapted from a series of paintings. According to the ICA’s website, “McLean, ”commissioned for the ICA’s Belvidere Street façade, is an adaptation of the artist’s former work “No Such Organization (2018-2020),” a series of 100 gouache paintings of icons and symbols. Each painting is in response to a news article following the disappearance and heinous murder, in October 2018, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi who lived in Mclean in Northern Virginia. For more details, please visit https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/ mclean/

Bradford pear tree in North Side